The Proposed Concept of a “Realm” Addition to Powerscaling

Couldn’t figure out a good name so I’m calling it a realm. Feel like this would make it easier to decipher vs. matchups and higher level scaling. Heads up the way I format this is going to include theology, that’s not for the sake of powerscaling but simply to show how this would act in the real world.

The idea here is that there are nearly unbreakable layers to fiction on one’s own. They determine how strong a character is simply by their realm. Csap is still important and all but this becomes a little different. Allow me to explain with reality.

Realm 1: Higher World (Would only apply if we were to live in a simulation)

Realm 0: Reality (Our current understanding of the real world)

Realm -1: Baseline fiction (like anything that doesn’t actually exist, it would encompass everything from Bart Simpson to IATIA)

Realm -2: Fiction within fiction (Below baseline fiction, anything that occurs within a book or a dream of an already fictional character)

This should be pretty definite. Anything from one realm can easily beat anything from a realm below it. Hate it or not an ant from reality can stomp The Weaver. It also provides the context to scaling characters within characters. The same way that a real human is 10-B and Bill Cipher is at least 3-A, a real human would still win without any difficulty, because to a real human Bill isn’t real. This also resolves the idea of characters that come from dream worlds and whatnot, they may be able to scale incredibly high, but due to their realm they’re not very powerful. A character that emerges from the dream of a fictional character would have no grounds to fight a character from the base level of fiction.

Beyond that I also propose sub-realms. For example (theology is used not the powerscaling sake but for real world examples)

Realm 0a: Existence (Encompass everything and nothing ) ex. Monad of philosophy

Realm 0b: Narration (the idea of gods) ex. Zeus, Odin

Realm 0c: known world (baseline world that we live in)

Realm -1a: Fictional existence (Encompasses everything and nothing of eternal cosmology) ex. IATIA

Realm -1b: Fictional narration (teir 0 in a way, but beyond that have the ability to completely narrative a verse, basically able to write their own story at the -1a level) ex. Swanns Proposal, UWL

Realm -1c: Baseline Fiction: (any character that exists in a non-narration level form) Ex. Goku, Ayanokoji

It would follow so-on and so-forth with fiction within fiction

The point of this all is that csap alone doesn’t tell the full story, it 100% matters for characters within the same realm (99% of fiction lies in -1c) but that much like in the real world there’s different levels to things that should be accounted for first